Halloween How-To: Get Mermaid Hair. MERMAID!

Be a bombshell mermaid like Ariel on Halloween. (Or just next Tuesday.)

By
Carly Cardellino

Oct 07, 2013

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If you're on a mission to be a mermaid this year — much like Lady Gaga — then consider yourself in luck. The below hair tutorial is going to get you gorgeous, flowing, Ariel-like waves that you can a) comb with your dinglehopper (if you don't have one, get one!) and b) make all of your friends jealous while they traipse around in their sexy cat costume. Boring!

3. Curl under, wrap over. "To get a mermaid wave rather than a prom curl, take one-inch sections" — like our model Kelly Thomas is doing here — "and starting on the left side of the part and holding the iron horizontally, wrap the gathered hair under the barrel first, and then around and around the rod until you reach the ends. Don't worry if your hair slightly twists as you're wrapping it — this trick creates the perfect mermaid wave."

4. Set your curls so they last longer. "After you curl each section of hair in the front, pin it up so that the curl cools and sets," Fugate explains.

5. Turn your attention to the back section. "Once you've curled and clipped the back, do your makeup so that your hair is out of your face and you give your curls time to cool," says Fugate.

6. Let your hair down. "After your makeup is done and your curls have cooled, gently brush them out using a boar bristle brush to get a uniform, sexy wave," he says. Kelly used a Mason Pearson brush, but you can also use a less expensive option like this one.

7. Spruce up any curls. "If any sections need recurled, now is the time to do it to make sure they all look the same," notes Fugate. "Remember, wrap under the iron and then around and around and around."

8. Mist your waves with shine spray. "You want your hair to have that glassy look, not wet but more like super shiny," he says. "So using a shine spray will help you achieve that." Kelly used Sally Hershberger Smooth Fix Styling Spray.